I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

The street finds its own uses for things.

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.